St. Pete’s arts scene is a cornerstone of its unique profile, with great visual art, world-class museums and performing arts of every kind, at every level. The section is not only a source for current arts news and updates, it profiles those artists and influencers who CREATE and make the St Petersburg arts community so vibrant. Keep abreast of local arts & culture events and news in the Create section.
With a half-dozen professional theater companies inside a relatively small radius, the Tampa Bay area keeps actors working year-round. Yet there are no sure things –...
In planning its fourth annual SHINE Mural Festival, the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance was forced to deal – like so many other Florida arts organizations –...
St. Petersburg is a city of the arts – residents, politicians, and Visit St. Pete/Clearwater advertisements will proudly tell you so. The city boasts the first...
Executive Director John Collins and the staff and artists of the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance are in high gear, planning several major events in furtherance of...
During this afternoon’s meeting, St. Petersburg City Council approved a new site for Janet Echelman’s controversial floating sculpture – at the Pier approach, instead of nearby...
Sandwiched as we are between the Fourth of July and Labor Day, there aren’t any holidays on the immediate horizon. What to do this weekend? For...
Sure it’s hot and steamy – welcome to the dog days of Florida summer – but that doesn’t mean St. Petersburg’s arts community is taking a...
As the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts’ fourth annual Beer Project approaches, its motto – “Drink With Purpose” – has never seemed more appropriate. Proceeds...
Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter whose bright, colorful, sometimes alarming works defy perspective, time, space, common sense and even gravity. Clyde Butcher’s black and white...
It’s a week before opening, and the cast and crew of Dancing at Lughnasa are gathered in the intimate Shimberg Playhouse, one of Jobsite Theatre’s performance...